As you plan your schedule for summer vacation, incorporate visits to arts and craft shows and shops.  Quilters and fabric artists do this regularly.  My daughter and her friends enjoy these forays to gather new ideas and meet other fabric artists.  Of course, lunch at a new location is added pleasure to the trip.
There are various types of Arts and Crafts Tours:
*On your family vacation, see what places of interest you’ll find on your route.  Of course you may have to include something else for the non crafters, but this usually can be arranged.
*Look around your local area and check …read more

 Last year, at the b5 One Book Two Book blog, I developed Theme Weeks, concentrating on a different topic with related books, web resources, and activities each week of the summer after school was out.  I plan to do it again this year in my Parenting topics.
 
I shall announce the themes as soon as I get them planned, starting in mid-June, when school is out in my area (New Hampshire) and I’m not substitute teaching any longer.
 If you have interesting, enjoyable, and informative activities you do in those areas, I’d like to have you share them with me and our …read more

I’m pretty depressed at the moment as my hubby packs up the mini-van to prepare to drive home tomorrow morning. That’s 24 hours in the car at best, 36 at worst.
It all depends on Zack. He’s good during the naps and then maybe an hour-and-a-half after that. Then there is just angry yelling. Not crying. Just yelling. My husband can sleep through the yelling, I can not. I’d rather be driving than being the poor sucker trying to make peek-a-boo fun in the 26th hour.
I suppose there are worse things in life . . . Having to unpack and do …read more